About Eilleen

Thanks so much for visiting my blog. I'm Eilleen and I'm passionate about fashion, sewing and pattern making! 

A couple of my achievements: 

• Winner of the Chamber of Commerce Business Person of the Year
• Finalist in the S.A.B.S. DISA Design Awards 
• Fair Lady Business Start =-Up Awards – Finalist
• South African Inventors Exhibition
• Exhibited in London’s premier Sewing Exhibition at Alexander Palace, London

I have been featured in the following National and International magazines:

• Your Family magazine
• Women’s Value Magazine
• Sewing World magazine
• The Crest
• The Australian Stitches.
• Daily News – Durban’s Newspaper
• The Highway Mail

Some of the highlights in my career have been:

• Teaching thousands of happy sewers to make and design their own clothes.
• Seeing many of my past students starting up their own successful sewing related businesses
• See a student win several Fashion Design Awards
• Seeing my books selling in London bookshops
• Enjoying the happy classes I have taught. 
• Being interviewed by Threads, in America -the leading sewing magazine sold in 32 countries.
• Seeing my pattern rulers and books being used in many countries:
• USA
• UK
• Australia
• New Zealand
• France
• Germany
• Alaska
• Canada
• Israel
• Italy
• Brazil